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Synonyms for theft
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  1. theft

    Synonyms:
    robbery, thieving, stealing, pilfering, filching, larceny, depredation

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  1. larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealingnoun

    the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

    "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"

    Synonyms:
    thievery, larceny, thieving, stealth, stealing

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  1. theftnoun

    Synonyms:
    larceny, robbery, stealing, shoplifting, pilfering, thievery

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  1. theftnoun

    Synonyms:
    stealing

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How to use theft in a sentence?

  1. Dwight D. Eisenhower:

    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  2. Alia Malak:

    After its theft of Palestinian land and culture, Israel is now trying to appropriate a symbol of our nonviolent resistance, this desperate and crude propaganda is straight out of apartheid South Africa's playbook.

  3. Lori Lightfoot:

    We still have retailers that won't institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they've got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night, chaining high-end bags, these purses can be something that is attracting a lot of organized retail theft units.

  4. Tom Robinson:

    There’s so much public attention on this, and exchanges will be on the lookout for customer deposits linked to this theft, this demonstrates that even if you can steal cryptoassets, laundering them and cashing out is extremely difficult, due to the transparency of the blockchain and the broad use of blockchain analytics by financial institutions.

  5. Chi Chi Wu:

    The settlement provides some compensation right now, but the risk of identity theft is forever.


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